Casa de los Balcones
17th-century Canarian mansion in La Orotava, famous for its wooden balconies and traditional openwork craft.
Casa de los Balcones is a stately mansion from 1632 in the historic center of La Orotava. It is notable for its inner courtyard with carved pine balconies and its traditional Canarian architecture over three floors.
Today it works as a house museum and Canarian openwork workshop, showing craft, customs and traditions of the island. It is one of the most visited buildings in northern Tenerife.
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